90s Megamix

Background

I have always considered a megamix a mix of (at least two) number of songs. Some say the minimum is actually three songs. The megamix uses a common backbeat to unify the songs together. Sound samples (from noises, instruments or tv/film quotes) can be used to enhance the megamix further Megamix is often associated with club and dance music but really can be any genre. In fact, The concept of mixing songs together goes further back in time in the form of medleys. (Note, I have excluded classical music medleys or symphonies)

The first ever medley might be Little Richard's "Kansas City/Hey hey hey hey" recorded in 1955 (later covered by the Beatles)>. However, there may have been some big band medleys such Glen Miller's rendition of "Jukebox Sautrday Night" (1942).

In the 60s/70s, mixing came forward from dance hall culture in Jamaica and the megamix really came through the extended mixes for clubs in the mid 1980s. One of earliest and best known master mixers is Ben Liebrand. In 1983, he got on local dutch radio with his "In the mix" show and created his "Grandmix" series. His Grandmix was variety of hits of the year.
His remixes of singles of Bill Withers' "Lovely Day" and Jeff Wayne's "Eve of the War" were UK Top 10 hits. One of my favourite mixes Rick Astley minimix (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiyRfGOcaEE) from Grandmix 87 and INXS "Need you tonight"

In the late 80s/early 90s, there were spate of megamixes hitting the charts including:

• Mirage - Jack Mix IV (UK#8 1987)
• Hithouse - Jack to the sound of the underground (UK#14 1988)
• LA Mix - Check this out (UK#6 1988)
• (Various Artists) - BRITS 1990 (UK #2 1990)
• Latino Rave - Deep Heat 89 (UK #13 1990)
• Megabass - Time To Make The Floor Burn (UK #16 1990)
• Bomb the Bass - Beat Dis (UK#2 1988)
• Bomb the Bass - Megablast (UK#6 1988)
• S'Express - Theme from S'Express (UK#1 1988)

This cumulated (and arguably turning the megamix as a single into a novelty) in Jive Bunny topping the UK chart in three times in 1989 with their dance music megamix of old songs with "Swing the mood," "That's what I like" and "Let's Party".
At the start of the 90s, someone bright spark came up with idea of megamix medley of hits (although the first instance may have been James Brown's Payback Mix which made UK#12 in 1988). To keep the momentum of recent sucess whilst waiting for new material in between studio albums). Leading the way on that was Alexander O'Neal, Bobby Brown and Paula Abdul. Other dance acts (particularly Eurodance) followed in this to varying success.

Top 25 90's Megamixes

1. Paula Abdul 1990 Medley Mix (1990)
2. Bobby Brown Freestyle Megamix (UK#14 1990)
3. C+C Music Factory MTV Medley (1991)
4. Sash! Megamix (2000)
5. Haddaway Megamix (1993)
6. Scatman Megamix (1996)
7. BRITS 1990 Dance Medley (UK#2 1990)
8. Jock Jam (US#31 1997)
9. Corona Megamix (UK#36 1997)
10. Culture Beat Megamix (1994)
11. Snap! Megamix (UK#10 1991)
12. KLF: Stadium House Triology (1991)
13. Reel 2 Real Megamix (1994)
14. La Bouche Megamix (1995)
15. 2 Unlimited Megamix (1992)
16. Technotronic Megamix (UK#6 1990)
17. Black Box: Total Mix (UK#12 1990)
18. Venga Boys Megamix (1999)
19. Crystal Waters Megamix! (UK#39 1992)
20. Whigfield Megamix (1995)
21. Alexander O'Neal Hitmix (The Official Bootleg Megamix) (UK#19 1990)
22. Livin' Joy Megamix (1997)
23. Gloria Estefan Miami Hit Mix (UK#8 1992)
24. N-Trance Megamix (2002)
25. Prince - Purple Medley (UK#33 1995)

Various Artists

"Various Artists" is usually name when a collective couldn't think of a name before, releasing their song for whatever reason. During the 1990s, there were 9 UK Top 40.
The most successful of these was a collection of artists covering Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" for the BBC as a charity single. It was one of the rare singles that had 2 spells at #1. Even rarer was that fact that it was #1 in both 1997 (2 weeks) and 1998 (1 week).
Performers on Perfect Day: Lou Reed, Bono, Skye Edwards (Morcheeba), David Bowie, Suzanne Vega, Elton John, Boyzone, Lesley Garrett, Burning Spear, Thomas Allen, Heather Small (M People), EmmyLou Harris, Tammy Wynette, Shane MacGowan, Dr John, Robert Cray, Huey Morgan (Fun Lovin' Criminials), Ian Broudie (Lightning Seeds), Gabrielle, Evan Dando (Lemonheads), Brett Anderson (Suede), Joan Armatrading, Laurie Anderson and Tom Jones.
Another successful was the megamix single for the BRITS award in 1990, which featured dance hits from the previous year including "Street Tuff" (Rebel MC/Double Trouble), "Voodoo Ray" (Guy called Gerald), "Theme from S'Express", "Hey DJ" (Beatmasters/Betty Boo), "War of the worlds" (Jeff Wayne), "Pacific State" (808 State), "We call it aciiid" (D-Mob) and "Got to keep on" (Cookie Crew).

90 Hits

Date	   UK	Song
Mar 1990    2	The Brits 1990
Nov 1990   16	Time To Make The Floor Burn
Nov 1992   26	The Fred EP
Apr 1993   23	Gimme Shelter EP
Oct 1993   30	The Two Tone EP
Mar 1996   39	New York Undercover EP
Mar 1996   35	Dangerous Minds EP
Nov 1997    1	Perfect Day
Dec 1999   19	It's Only Rock 'N' Roll

X-Pansions

Xpansions are an English dance outfit comprised of Phil Drummond, Richie Malone and Sally Anne Marsh (born Oct 14). Sally Ann Marsh was in a band called Faith, Hope and Charity with Dani Behr and Diana Barrand before joining Xpansions. Xpansions are best known for the dance anthem "Move your body" that spent 1 week at #1 on UK Dance Chart in August 1995.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Feb 1991    7	Move Your Body (Elevation)
Aug 1995   14	Move That Body (remix)

What happened next?
Phil Drummond and Richie Malone collaborated on the Marradonna project, which reached #38 in Feb 1994 and #39 in July 1997 with "Out of my head". Sally Ann Marsh also sung vocals for the house group, Ariel and in 2000 provided vocals for Aurora's UK Top 20 hit, "Hear you calling".

Wreckx N Effect

Wreckx-N-Effect (originally Wrecks-N-Effect) was a New Jack Swing Hip-Hop group originally composed of "K.C.", Aqil "A-Plus" Davidson, Brandon Mitchell and Markell Riley, formed around 1988. They are best known for the track, "Rump Shaker" which spent 1 week at #1 on Canada Dance Chart in January 1993.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Jan 1990   29	Juicy
Dec 1992   24	Rump Shaker
May 1994   26	Wreckx Shop (featuring Apache Indian)
Aug 1994   40	Rump Shaker (re-issue)

What happened next?
Wreckx-N-Effect haven't released anything new since "Top Billin'" in 1996.

Will Smith / Fresh Prince

Will Smith is an American born (Sep 25) actor, producer and rapper. His early music success was with Jeff Townes under the infamous monkier of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Together they are best known for "Summertime" and the UK chart-topper "Boom! Shake the Room". Their success led to being cast in their own TV sitcom, "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air."
Will branched out into movies and song the title track for "Men in Black", which sampled Patrice Rushden's "Forget me nots". That was #1 in the UK and 1 week at #1 on the Canada Dance chart in August 1997. Will released a solo album "Big Willie Styles", which hit singles, US chart-topper "Gettin' jiggy wit it", "Just the two of us" and "Miami". Another solo album, "Willenium" spawned two more hits in US chart-topper "Wild Wild West" and "Will 2K". "Gettin' jiggy wit it" spent a total of 2 weeks at #1 on Canada Dance Chart in February/March 1998.
He was featured on Tatyana Ali's UK Top 3 hit, "Boy you knock me out"

90 Hits (Will Smith / Jazzy Jeff Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Aug 1991    8	Summertime (as Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)
Sep 1993    1	Boom! Shake The Room (as Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)
Nov 1993   24	I'm Looking For The One (To Be With Me) (as Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)
Feb 1994   29	Can't Wait To Be With You (as Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)
Aug 1994   29	Summertime (re-entry) (as Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)
Dec 1995   40	Boom! Shake The Room (remix) (as Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)
Aug 1997    1	Men In Black
Dec 1997   23	Just Cruisin'
Feb 1998    3	Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
Jul 1998   37	Lovely Daze (as Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)
Aug 1998    2	Just The Two Of Us
Dec 1998    3	Miami
Feb 1999    3	Boy You Knock Me Out (featured with Tatyana Ali)
Jul 1999    2	Wild Wild West (featuring Dru Hill)
Nov 1999    2	Will 2K

What happened next?
Will Smith is probably better known for acting in Hollywood blockbusters than for his music. His recent acting credits include "Bad Boys for Life" and "Emancipation". His most recent dip into music was "Get Lit" (2017) and "Will" (2020).

Whitney

Whitney Houston was an American born (Aug 23) singer and actress. She is best known for singing Dolly Parton's "I will always love you" from the movie "The Bodyguard" for which starred in. The song was a runaway hit internationally. The Bodyguard also had "I'm every woman" reach #1 on the US and Canada Dance chart (1993) with "Queen of the Night" another US Dance #1 (1994). "Exhale (Shoop shoop)" another song from another movie, "Waiting to exhale" reached #1 in the States and this would be her last chart topper there.
The album "My love is your love" brought more success with the title track, "It's not right but it's okay" and "Heartbreak hotel" all reaching the US Top 5 and all making #1 on the US Dance chart.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Oct 1990    5	I'm Your Baby Tonight
Dec 1990   13	All The Man That I Need
Jul 1991   29	My Name Is Not Susan
Nov 1992    1	I Will Always Love You
Feb 1993    4	I'm Every Woman
Apr 1993    3	I Have Nothing
Jul 1993   15	Run To You
Nov 1993   14	Queen Of The Night
Dec 1993   25	I Will Always Love You (re-entry)
Jan 1994   16	Something In Common (Bobby Brown with Whitney Houston)
Nov 1995   11	Exhale (Shoop Shoop)
Feb 1996   12	Count On Me (Whitney Houston and Ce Ce Winans
Dec 1996   17	Step By Step
Mar 1997   16	I Believe In You And Me
Dec 1998    4	When You Believe (Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston)
Mar 1999    3	It's Not Right But It's OK
Jul 1999    2	My Love Is Your Love
Dec 1999   19	I Learned From The Best

What happened next?
Whitney sadly passed away in 2012 but legacy lives on. A little known album track, "Higher Love" from the Japanese version of Whitney 's third album, "I'm your baby tonight" was remixed and released by Kygo in 2019. It made #2 in the UK. In December 2016, Billboard magazine listed her among the 100 Top Dance Club Artists of All Time (as 13th)

White Town

White Town is the brainchild of Jyoti Mishrea, an Indian born (Jul 30) singer and producer, residing in the UK. He is best known for UK chart-topper "Your woman". Noting his status as a one-hit wonder, Mishra says he is "happy" to be a one-hit wonder, as it is "better than a no-hit wonder".

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Jan 1997    1	Your Woman

What happened next?
White Town's most recent release was "I want to go back" in October 2020, which takes inspiration from the 1980s.

Whigfield

Whigfield is actually the name of an Italian dance act fronted by the Danish singer and songwriter Sannie Charlotte Carlson. These days we just think of Sannie as Whigfield. She is best known for debuting at #1 and knocking off Wet Wet Wet's "Love is all around" in the process with "Saturday Night." It would spent 4 weeks on top in 1994. "Saturday Night" also spent 2 weeks at #1 on the Canada Dance Chart. Follow-ups "Another day" and "Think of you" also made the UK Top 10.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Sep 1994    1	Saturday Night
Dec 1994    7	Another Day
Jun 1995    7	Think Of You
Sep 1995   13	Close To You
Dec 1995   21	Last Christmas / Big Time	

What happened next?
Whigfield's recent releases including her failed attempt to represent Denmark in the Eurovision Song Content in 2018, "Boys on girls" and "Suga" in 2020. At the end of 2021, she featured on a number of throwback shows in the UK and Canada.

Wet Wet Wet

Wet Wet Wet are a Scottish pop group consisting of Graeme Clark, Tommy Cunningham, Neil Mitchell and Marti Pellow. Their name was derived from the Scritti Politti song, "Gettin, havin' and holdin'". In the 90s, they are best known for the Trogg's "Love is all around" from the movie, '4 Weddings and a Funeral'. This spent 15 weeks at #1 in the UK in 1994. "Goodnight girl" was also UK #1 for 4 weeks in 1992. They'd have a total of 18 top 40 hits with 7 top 7s in the UK.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Mar 1990   31	Hold Back The River
Aug 1990   30	Stay With Me Heartache / I Feel Fine
Sep 1991   37	Make It Tonight
Jan 1992    1	Goodnight Girl
Mar 1992   19	More Than Love
Jul 1992   15	Lip Service (EP)
May 1993   38	Blue For You / This Time (live)
Nov 1993   22	Shed A Tear
Jan 1994   23	Cold Cold Heart
May 1994    1	Love Is All Around
May 1995    3	Julia Says
Jun 1995    7	Don't Want To Forgive Me Now
Sep 1995    7	Somewhere Somehow
Dec 1995   17	She's All My Mind
Mar 1996   16	Morning
Mar 1997    3	If I Never See You Again
Jun 1997   13	Strange
Aug 1997    4	Yesterday

What happened next?
When Wet Wet Wet were reformed in 2018, Kevin Simm was announced as Marti Pellow's replacement.

Wedding Present

The Wedding Present was a English indie group founded in 1985. The initial line-up included David Gedhe, guitarist Peter Solowka, bassist Keith Gregory, and drummer Shaun Charman. They are best known releasing a single every month in 1992 and consequently scoring a record equaling 12 UK Top 40 hits in a single year. "Come play with me" was their only top 10 hit.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Feb 1990   24	Brassneck
Sep 1990   25   3 Songs EP
May 1991   29	Dalliance
Jan 1992   26	Blue Eyes
Feb 1992   20	Go-Go Dancer
Mar 1992   14	Three
Apr 1992   14	Silver Shorts
May 1992   10	Come Play With Me
Jun 1992   16	California
Jul 1992   22	Flying Saucer
Aug 1992   19	Boing!
Sep 1992   17	Love Slave
Oct 1992   17	Sticky
Nov 1992   23	The Queen Of Outer Space
Dec 1992   25	No Christmas
Jan 1997   40	Montreal

What happened next?
Over the year, the only constant member throughout the group's history was singer/songwriter David Gedge. David Gedge broke away from the Wedding Present in 1997 and created the group, Cinerama. In 2004 that group were rebranded at the Wedding Present.

Was (Not Was)

Was (Not Was) is an American pop rock group founded in 1979 in Detroit, Michigan, by David Weiss and Don Fagenson, who adopted the stage names David Was and Don Was. They are well known for the 80's hit, "Walk the Dinosaur". In the 1990s, they had a couple of hits in the UK, "Papa was a rolling stone" and "Shake your head", which featured Kim Basinger and Ozzy Osbourne on vocals.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
May 1990   12	Papa Was A Rolling Stone
Jul 1992    4	Shake Your Head	

What happened next?
Was (Not) Was' most recent release was "Wheel Me Out Edits EP" in 2012.

Wamdue Project

Wamdue Project is a monkier of Chris Brann who is an American born (Mar 25) electronic music producer and remixer. The project is best known for UK#1 "King of My Castle" in November 1999. This track featured the vocals of Gaelle Adisson

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Nov 1999    1	King Of My Castle

What happened next?
Chris Brann other projects include the Ananda Project,P'Taah, Wamdue Kids, Wambonix, Wam Kidz amongst others. These days Brann is more on creative/production side and is founder of Atlanta Visuals. Gaelle Adisson was featured artist on a few songs but her last effort was solo on the 2004 track, "Give it back".

Vic Reeves

James Moir, better known as Vic Reeves is an English Entertainer. Best known for being one half of the comedic double act, "Reeves & Mortimer. He ventured into music with a couple of UK top 10 hits, a cover of Matt Munro's "Born free" and Tommy Roe's "Dizzy". The latter was with the Wonder Stuff and spent 2 weeks at #1 in November 1991. He'd also collaborate with Bob Mortimer and EMF on the Monkees' "I'm a believer".

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Apr 1991    6	Born Free (with The Roman Numerals)
Oct 1991    1	Dizzy (with The Wonder Stuff)
Jul 1995    3	I'm A Believer (EMF with Reeves & Mortimer)

What happened next?
Vic Reeves went back to comedy, TV and presenting as he has appeared countless shows. Credits include "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)," "Shooting Stars," and "Brainac: Science Abuse." These days Jim Moir has reverted to his real name and in 2020 co-hosted the Netflix original, reality series The Big Flower Fight alongside Natasia Demetriou.

Venga Boys

Vengaboys is a Dutch Eurodance music group created by producers Dennis van den Driesschen (Danski) and Wessel van Diepen (Delmundo). The group contained female vocalists Kim Sasabone and Denise Post-Van Rijswijk and male vocalists Robin Pors and Donny Latupeirissa. They are best known for a series of party songs in the late 90s. Their debut track, "Up and Down" in 1998 was more an Eurohouse track with limited vocals but was #1 on both the UK and US dance charts and reached #4 on the main UK chart. The follow-up "We like to party" (Vengabus)" was similar to "Up and Down" but with vocals and reached #1 on the Canada Dance chart in 1999. "Boom boom boom boom" gave Vengaboys their first UK #1 in June 1999 and was their second Canada Dance #1. A variation of Typically Topical's "Barbados" called "We're going to Ibiza" followed as a second UK #1 in September 1999.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Nov 1998    4	Up And Down
Mar 1999    3	We Like To Party! (Vengabus)
Jun 1999    1	Boom Boom Boom Boom
Sep 1999    1	We're Going To Ibiza!
Dec 1999    3	Kiss (When The Sun Don't Shine)

What happened next?
In 2019, Vengaboys celebrated their 20th anniversary and released the songs "Boom, boom, Boom, Boom!! - Unplugged" and "We're going to Ibiza! - Unplugged" in June on an EP titled Unplugged #1's. In the summer of 2020 Vengaboys released a festival version of their worldwide hit "Up & Down" with Australian DJ and producer Timmy Trumpet.

Vanessa Williams

Vanessa Lynne Williams or just Vanessa Williams is an American born (Mar 18) singer and actress. She initially gained recognition as the first African-American woman to receive the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984 in 1983 although later forced to resign over Penthouse publishing unauthorised nude photographs of her. She embarked on a music career and had initial success in the States where in 1991, her second album, "The Comfort Zone" brought #1 on the R&B chart and #2 on the dance chart in the States with "Running back to you". But it was the release of the song that memorably opens with the line "Sometimes the snow comes down in June" that brought international attention. Not only did "Save the best for last" reach #1 in the states, it reached #1 in Australia and Canada and peaked at #3 in the UK. She'd have 2 further US top 5s with "Love is" (with Brian McKnight) in 1993 and "Colors of the wind" from the soundtrack to the 1995 movie, Pocahontas.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Mar 1992    3	Save The Best For Last
Sep 1995   21	Colours Of The Wind

What happened next?
Vanessa Williams is arguably better known for acting in movies such as Eraser (1996) and Soul Food (1997). Her most notable role was as editor-in-chief Wilhelmina Slater in the comedy series Ugly Betty (2006-2010). The multi-talented Williams even launched her own clothing line, V for EVINE Live in 2016. In 2020 Williams was the winner of episode 2 of RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race, and donated her prize of $20000 to the LBGTQ charity The Trevor Project.

Van Bellen

Jorg Querner, sometimes known as Yoogie Van Bellen (or just Van Bellen) is a German Trance producer and DJ (not to be confused with Joost Van Bellen). He is best known for the trance song, "Let me take you on a journey", which uses a sample from Firefly's "Supernatural".

What happened next?
Van Bellen was also hugely successful as one half of Saints & Sinners and their label Sounds Good Records. Saints & Sinners biggest track was "Pushin Too Hard" which was championed by Sasha, John Digweed, Paul Oakenfold and many other top DJs and was subsequently released on Digweed's Bedrock Records. The Saints & Sinners production line was just as prolific as Van Bellen's remix career and also included their single "Peace" which was snapped up by the iconic record label Hooj Choons. Van Bellen's last release was the Nightfall EP from 2018.

Utah Saints

Utah Saints are an English electronic band based in Yorkshire. They are best known for the songs "What can you do for me", "Something Good" and "Believe in me" (which is also known as the vocal sample trilogy). Their style is notable for their extensive use of sampling technology, manipulating samples from mainstream pop and rock songs and combining them with contrasting dance beats. "What can you do for me" sampled Eurythmics' "There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)" and Gwen Guthrie's "Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent". "Something Good" heavily sampled Kate Bush's "Cloudbusting". "Believe in Me" was based on "Love Action" by Human League and "You Gave Me Love" by Crown Heights Affair.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Aug 1991   10	What Can You Do For Me	
Jun 1992    4	Something Good
May 1993    8	Believe In Me
Jul 1993   25	I Want You
Jun 1994   32	I Still Think Of You

What happened next?
Utah Saints have also gained a certain notoriety for the long gap between releases - their follow-up, Two (2000), came eight years after their debut (1992). No news on a third album as yet. They ran the SugarBeat Club nights from 1998 to 2010 at various UK locations. Updated remixes of "Something Good" (UK #8, 2008) and "What can you do for me" (UK#28, 2012) were released.

USURA

USURA was an Italian Euro-dance project created by Time Records owner Giacomo Maiolini, producers Walter Cremonini and Alessandro Gillardi. The name camed from the name of Maiolini's mother, Ursula. They are best known for hit single (and album), "Open your mind", featuring the dialog sample said in the 1990 film, Total Recall, as well as samples from Ashford and Simpson's "Solid" and Simple Minds' "New Gold Dream". Usura used musicians, Claudio Varola, Michele Comis and Elisa Spreafichi in their hit songs.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Jan 1993    7	Open Your Mind
Jul 1993   29	Sweat
Dec 1997   21	Open Your Mind 97 (quicksilver remix)	

What happened next?
USURA hav not released anything since "Trance Emotions" in 1998 and have assumed to have quietly disbanded.

Urban Cookie Collective

Urban Cookie Collective are a British Eurodance band founded by English born (Jul 19) Rohan Heath. They are best known for their 1993 hit single "The Key the Secret", which spent 2 weeks at #2 in the Uk behind Freddie Mercury posthumous chart-topper "Living on my own". Diane Charlemagne (Feb 22) was brought as vocalist who sung on the hit singles and co-wrote some of their later tracks. Other main members were Simon Bentall (Oct 1967), Peter Samson (May 15), Johnny Jay, Mark Hadfield and Neil Claxton (later of Mint Royale).

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Jul 1993    2	The Key The Secret
Nov 1993    5	Feels Like Heaven
Feb 1994   18	Sail Away
Apr 1994   31	High On A Happy Vibe

What happened next?
Urban Cookie Collective remains active and last tours were fronted by singer Danielle Barnett. Tragically, Charlemagne was died of kidney cancer on 28th October 2015.

Undercover

Undercover is a British dance music group consisting of singer John Matthews, bassist Jon Jules and keyboardist Steve Mac (Steve McCutcheon). They are best known for having hits with covers of Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" and Andrew Gold's "Never let her slip away". The former reached #2 only held off by Snap's "Rhythm is a dancer."

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Aug 1992    2	Baker Street
Nov 1992    5	Never Let Her Slip Away
Feb 1993   28	I Wanna Stay With You

What happened next?
Undercover had where are they now feature in 2019. John Matthews is still performing. Steve Mac had already had previous when writing Nomad's hit single, "Devotion". He became a record producer and songwriter of his own. He has scored 30 UK #1 hits and has worked with musicians including Ed Sheeran, Melanie C, Pink, Westlife, Little Mix, to name a few. Jon Jules went on to become a major success in the UK soul music scene as a DJ, radio presenter and event organiser.

Umboza

Umboza were a Scottish house duo consisting of Stuart Crichton and Michael Kilkie. They are best known for the songs, "Cry India" which sampled Lionel Richie's "All night long" and "Sunshine" which sampled the Gipsy Kings's "Bamboleo". "Cry India" was #1 on the UK Dance chart and reached #16 on the US Dance chart in 1995. In 1996, "Sunshine" reached #14 in the UK and was #1 on the Canada dance chart.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Sep 1995   19	Cry India
Jul 1996   14	Sunshine

What happened next?
Stuart Crichton created and was a part of the group, Narcotic Thrust and most notably won the International Dance Music Award for Best Pop Dance track in 2004 with "I like it" which was US Dance #1 as was "Safe from Harm". Crichton went on to write, produce and remix a variety of musicians including Kylie, Backstreet Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Selena Gomez... amongst others.
Michael Kilkie continues to DJ but also has become a chef. He launched a charity cookbook.

Ultra Nate

Ultra Nate Wyche, known professionally as Ultra Nateis an American born (Mar 20) singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ and promoter who has achieved success on the pop charts with songs such as "Free" and "If You Could Read My Mind" (as part of Stars on 54). She first made #1 on the US Dance chart in 1994 with "Show me". In 1997, she gained international recognition when she reached #4 on the UK chart as well scoring another US Dance #1. Follow-ups "Found a cure" and "New kind of medicine" were hits. "Found a cure" gave Ultra Nate a third US Dance #1.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Jun 1997    4	Free
Jan 1998   33	Free (remixes)
Apr 1998    6	Found A Cure
Jul 1998   14	New Kind Of Medicine

What happened next?
Ultra Nate had more US Dance #1s with "Desire" (2000), "Get it up (The Feeling)" (2001), "Automatic" (2007) and "Give it all you got" (2007). Ultra's 2017 album collaboration, Ultra Nate & Quentin Harris as Black Stereo Faith, reached the iTunes Top 10 upon release.

UB40

UB40 are an English reggae and pop band formed in the late 70s in Birmingham. In the 1990s, they are best known for #1 hit in multiple countries (including UK and USA), "(I can't help) falling in love with you". The song was originally recorded by Elvis Presley and was featured in the Sharon Stone movie, "Sliver". UB40 had other UK Top 10 hits with "Kingston Town" (1990), Bob Dylan's "I'll be your baby tonight" with Robert Palmer (1990) and "Higher ground" (1993). Ali Campbell would also release solo singles UB40 combined with Robert Palmer on an old Bob Dylan song, "I'll be your baby tonight".

90 Hits for UB40 (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Mar 1990    4	Kingston Town
Jul 1990   35	Wear You To The Ball
Nov 1990    6	I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (with Robert Palmer)
Dec 1992   17	One In Ten (808 State vs UB40)
May 1993    1	(I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You
Aug 1993    8	Higher Ground
Dec 1993   24	Bring Me Your Cup
Apr 1994   37	C'est La Vie
Aug 1994   28	Reggae Music
Nov 1995   15	Until My Dying Day
Aug 1997   14	Tell Me It Is True
Oct 1998   10	Come Back Darling
Dec 1998   31	Holly Holy
May 1999   30	The Train Is Coming

90 Hits for Ali Campbell (Discography):

May 1995    5	That Look In Your Eye
Aug 1995   25	Let Your Yeah Be Yeah

What happened next?
The UB40's line-up was stable for nearly 29 years, from March 1979 until January 2008, when frontman Ali Campbell left the band, followed shortly thereafter by keyboardist Mickey Virtue. Another member, Astro, remained with the band until November 2013, when he departed the original band to team up with Campbell and Virtue in a new version of UB40. In 2014, legal advice was sought by the original band (now consisting of remaining co-founding members drummer Jimmy Brown, guitarist Robin Campbell, bassist Earl Falconer, percussionist Norman Hassan, and saxophonist Brian Travers, along with new vocalist Duncan Campbell) who took action against the group containing Campbell, Virtue, and Astro over usage of the band name, due to it being used by both parties.

U2

U2 are an Irish group consisting of Bono (Paul David Hewson), The Edge (David Howell Evans), Adam Charles Clayton and Lawrence Joseph Mullen Jr. U2's musical style has evolved throughout their career, yet has maintained an anthemic quality built on Bono's expressive vocals and the Edge's chiming, effects-based guitar sounds. Their lyrics, often embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal and sociopolitical themes. Popular for their live performances, the group have staged several ambitious and elaborate tours over their career.
In the 1990s, they are arguably best known for the UK #1s "The Fly" and "Discotheque". In 1991, U2 released the album "Achtung Baby" with the leading single, "The Fly" debuted at #1 as it ended Bryan Adams' 16 week reign of "Everything I do." "The Fly" didn't fear as well in the States (only reached #61) but the follow-ups "Mysterious ways" and "One" reached the top 10 in the US. A remix of "Even better than the real thing" reached the UK Top 10. Ironically, the album "Achtung baby" reached in #1 in the US (with no singles reaching the US Top 5) whilst in the UK, it only peaked at #2. THeir next album "Zooropa" was based on their experiences from the Zoo TV tour and featured the song "Stay (Faraway So Close)". They also had a hit "Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me" from the movie Batman Forever.
Clayton and Mullen also worked together on producing the "Mission Impossible" theme tune for the first movie of the Tom Cruise-led franchise, which reached #7 in the UK chart in 1996.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Nov 1991    1	The Fly
Dec 1991   13	Mysterious Ways
Mar 1992    7	One
Jun 1992   12	Even Better Than The Real Thing
Jul 1992    8	Even Better Than The Real Thing (remix)
Dec 1992   14	Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Dec 1993    4	Stay (Faraway So Close)
Jun 1995    2	Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Feb 1997    1	Discotheque
Apr 1997    3	Staring At The Sun
Aug 1997   10	Last Night On Earth
Oct 1997    7	Please
Dec 1997   12	If God Will Send His Angels
Oct 1998    3	Sweetest Thing

What happened next?
U2 have continued to have hits, record albums and go on tours over the years. Into the 2000s, they had UK #1 hits with "Beautiful Day" (2000), "Take Me to the Clouds Above" (with LMC in 2004), Vertigo (2004) and "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" (2005). There was the infamous photobombing incident at the Oscars when Benedict Cumberbatch jumped in on them in 2014. U2's Joshua Tree anniversary concert tour visited Oceania and Asia in 2019, marking the band's first performances in Australia and New Zealand since the 360 Tour in 2010, and their first ever performances in South Korea, Singapore, India, and the Philippines. The band released a new single, "Ahimsa", with Indian musician A.R. Rahman to promote their December concert in India.

A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest was an American hip hop group formed in St. Albans, Queens, New York in 1985, originally composed of rapper and main producer Q-Tip, rapper Phife Dawg, DJ and co-producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and rapper Jarobi White. The group is regarded as a pioneer of alternative hip hop music.
They are best known for the heavily sample laden song, "Can I kick it?" and their collaboration with the Fugees, Busta Rhymes and Forte on the UK Top 3 hit "Rumble in the jungle" from the movie soundtrack for "When we were kings". They scored a UK Dance #1 with "The Jam EP" in August 1997.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Jan 1991   15	Can I Kick It
Jul 1996   34   1nce Again
Nov 1996   33	Stressed Out (featuring Faith Evans & Raphael Saadiq)
Mar 1997    3	Rumble In The Jungle (featured with Fugees, A Tribe Called Quest, Busta Rhymes & Forte)

What happened next?
Phife Dawg died on March 22, 2016, due to complications relating to diabetes in the middle of recording the aptly named "We Got It from Here". A tribe called quest completed the album at the end of the year and it reached #1 on the US Album chart. The band won best international group at the 2017 BRIT awards. The group disbanded not after a few farewell concerts/festival appearances (Bestival being the final one in 2017). After disbanding, a short film for the album's opening track, "The Space Program", was released on March 29, 2018 and billed as the group's final video.

Tori Amos

Myra Ellen Amos better known as Tori Amos is an American born (Aug 22) singer, songwriter and pianist. She is best known for the songs "Cornflake Girl" and "Professional Widow." She came to prominence with the release of her first two albums, "Little Earthquakes" and "Under the Pink" (and in off the brown). The latter was #1 on the UK album chart and spawned her top 10 hits "Cornflake Girl" and Pretty Good Year." She had more semi hit singles from her third album, "Boys for Pele" which included "Professional Widow". That song was remixed and spark an accidential change of genre when it first reached #1 on both the UK and US charts in middle of 1996. It would later be re-released in the UK (with the Armand Van Heldon mixes) where it reached #1 on both the main UK and UK dance charts at the start of 1997. She'd go on to have further US Dance #1 hits with "Blue Skies" (1997) and "Jackie's Strength" (1999).

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Mar 1992   25	Winter
Jun 1992   15	Crucify
Aug 1992   26	Silent All These Years
Jan 1994    4	Cornflake Girl
Mar 1994    7	Pretty Good Year
May 1994   31	Past The Mission
Jan 1996   20	Caught A Lite Sneeze
Mar 1996   22	Talula
Aug 1996   20	Hey Jupiter / Professional Widow
Nov 1996   26	Blue Skies (featured with BT)
Jan 1997    1	Professional Widow (remix)
May 1998   16	Spark

What happened next?
Tori Amos moved to Cornwall and married sound engineer, Mark Hawley in 1998. Amos has written two autobiography/memoirs, "Piece by Piece" (written with rock journalist Ann Powers in 2005) and "Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage" (2020).
Amos scored her fourth US Dance #1 hit in 2012 with "Flavor." Amos released a holiday-themed EP entitled Christmastide recorded in COVID lockdown at the end of 2020, digitally and on limited edition vinyl. The EP consists of four original songs and features her first work with bandmates Matt Chamberlain and Jon Evans since 2009.

Tony Di Bart

Antonio Carmine Di Bartolomeo better known as Tony Di Bart is an English born (Aug 24) singer who is best known for the UK #1 hit, "The Real Thing" in May 1994. A follow-up, "Do it" reached the top 40 as well.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Apr 1994    1	The Real Thing
Aug 1994   21	Do It

What happened next?
Subsequent singles from Tony Di Bart's album, "Falling for you" failed to chart. His last known singles release was "I live for you" in 2004. He has made the odd performance over the years and his love these days is gospel and soul music.

Together

Together were an English group consisting of Jonathon Donaghy and Suddi Raval. They are best known for the rave track, "Hardcore Uproar", which uses samples of Obi Wan Kenobi from Star Wars and John Carpenter's "The End". Pressed as a white-label, it not only achieved the goal of getting it played at the legendary Hacienda nightclub in Manchester, but also reached #12 in the UK music chart.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Aug 1990   12	Hardcore Uproar

What happened next?
Suddi is still based in Manchester, has composed the music for numerous video games and now has his own audio design company. There is a hint of irony, in that Johon Carpenter's "The End" was also sampled on the Bomb The Bass' "Megablast", which was featured on the shoot-em up computer game, "Xenon 2". He put together a book called "A Brief History Of Acid House." and released a track called "The perspective" in 2020. He has a new project called "SiOS". Tragically Jonathon and his girlfriend Emma (who provided the vocals on The Together Mix) were both killed in a road accident on the island of Ibiza, circa 1991. R.I.P. A tribute night for them called Harmony was held at the Hacienda in September 1991.

Todd Terry

Todd Terry is an American born (Apr 18) DJ, record producer and remixer in the genre of house music. His productions extensively used samples blending the sounds of classic disco, the Chicago house sound, and elements of hip-hop. In the 1990s, he is best known for the dance tracks of the reworked Musique'ss "Keep on jumpin" and "Something goin' on", which both featured Jocelyn Brown and Martha Wash and reached the UK Top 10 as well as becoming Dance chart #1s in both the UK and US. The 1995 version of "Weekend" also reached #1 on the UK Dance Chart. He reached #1 on the US Dance chart with Shannon on "It's over love" in 1998. Also under the moniker of Gypsyman reached #1 on the US Dance chart with "Hear the music."

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Oct 1995   28	Weekend
Jul 1996    8	Keep On Jumpin'	(featuring Martha Wash & Jocelyn Brown)
Jul 1997    5	Something Goin' On
Dec 1997   16	It's Over Love (featuring Shannon)
Apr 1998   20	Ready For A New Day (featuring Martha Wash)

What happened next?
Todd Terry has been very busy in the last couple of years, particularly in 2020 where he released over 20 songs.

TLC

TLC are an American female voice trio, Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes (May 27), Rozanda 'Chilli' Thomas (Feb 27) and Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins (Apr 26). The name "TLC" is dervied from the initials of the trio.
TLC debut single was "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg", which reach #13 in the UK. This track samples James Brown's Escapeism (US#35 in 1971), Kool & The Gang's Jungle Boogie (US#4 in 1973), The Average White Band's School Boy Crush (US#33 in 1975) and Silver Conventions Fly, Robin, Fly (UK#28 / US#1 in 1975). "Creep" sampled "Hey Young World" by Slick Rick (from his 1988 "The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick"). "No scrubs" spent a total of 8 weeks at #1 on Canada Dance Chart in March/April/June 1999.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Jun 1992   13	Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg
Jan 1995   22	Creep
Apr 1995   18	Red Light Special
Aug 1995    4	Waterfalls
Nov 1995   18	Diggin' On You
Jan 1996    6	Creep (re-issue)
Apr 1999    3	No Scrubs
Aug 1999    6	Unpretty
Dec 1999   31	Dear Lie

What happened next?
Left Eye had an international hit with Melanie C in 2000 with "Never be the same again", where it reached #1 in the UK. Whilst recording their fourth studio album, "3D", Lopes died tragically in a car accident. Upon completion, TLC announced that it would be the final album. The two remaining members stuck together and eventually a self-titled fifth album was released in 2017.

Tin Tin Out

Tin Tin Out is an English group comprised of Darren Stokes and Lindsay Edwards. They are best known for collaborations with Shelley Nelson on "Here's where the story ends" (1998) and Emma Bunton on Edie Brickell's "What I am" (1999). They have collaborated with the likes of Tony Hadley and Espiritu. The latter was on "Always (Something there to remind me)" reached #1 on the UK Dance Chart in March 1995. Tin Tin Out also remixed for a variety of artists including Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, The Corrs and Des'ree.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Aug 1994   32	The Feeling (featuring Sweet Tee)
Mar 1995   14	Always Something There To Remind Me (featuring Espiritu)
Feb 1997   31	All I Wanna Do
May 1997   35	Dance With Me (featuring Tony Hadley)
Sep 1997   31	Strings For Yasmin
Mar 1998    7	Here's Where The Story Ends (featuring Shelley Nelson)
Sep 1998   20	Sometimes (featuring Shelley Nelson)
Sep 1999   26	Eleven To Fly (featuring Wendy Page)
Nov 1999    2	What I Am (featuring Emma Bunton)

What happened next?
Lindsay Edwards became a doctor holding qualifications in both physiology and mathematics, specalising in the fields of systems biology and machine learning and is now head of AI for Respiratory and Immunology at AstraZeneca.
Darren Stokes later joined Studio Killers.